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Fear of hell, advice please
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RE: Fear of hell, advice please
(March 3, 2018 at 5:55 pm)Brian37 Wrote:
(March 2, 2018 at 2:18 am)orthodox-man Wrote: Good point and I agree with you. In some past comments I admitted that: even if we can't explain it doesn't make it supernatural. I still don't get 2 things fully: consistency in hell ndes and the fact that christians tend to report seeing Jesus quite often while people from other faiths don't report seeing as many of their dieties ex: Muhammad or Krishna. However, that may have more to do with conditioning. Anyways, I want to see more studies. If more and more studies keep failing, I will have no choice but to reject my potential thought of afterlife, and I will become atheist.

We can explain NDE's. It is a false perception the person has due to the ignorance of lack of knowledge of how the brain acts under stress while shutting down. 

Your brain is packed with neurons and neurological pathways you have imprinted from life experiences. If you already buy into superstitions and seeing loved ones those beliefs are held like a filing cabinet, even if totally false beliefs. When your brain slowly dies, it is like turning over a filing cabinet and dumping out all the files. If you want to believe you were floating over your body, it isn't that you actually did, it is because someone told you that prior to having that phantom "experience". Hallucinations and the so called "bright light" "experience is due to denying oxygen to the brain. 

NEAR is still the key word, not beyond. If one were to get decapitated or blow their brains out with a shotgun, NOT RECOMMENDED, that person would not have that experience at all. NDE's are false perceptions that only happen when the brain is in tact but dying slowly. Like a dimmer switch on a wall for your light. You can also think of your memories and beliefs as  being like an old 8 millimeter film real jumping off the spool, then nothing. 

It is an "experience" in the same way if you tell a kid at Halloween, that the bowl of covered olives in the dark kitchen at the kids party, are human eyeballs. If you want to believe it badly enough, sure you felt something, but they were olives, not eyeballs.

When your brain dies, you die, that is it, near only means near. If you come out of an event and fully recover with no brain damage, that merely means there was just enough activity during a window to allow for you to come back. But, once enough brain cells are damaged beyond repair you die. 

I watched my own mother die in front of me. It was horrifying to watch, her lips were the last motion I saw in her, and I knew in that last minute, those were the last vestiges of neurons firing only from her brain stem, the "her", the thinking part of her brain, was dead before. There was no her at that point. No soul floated out of her. I loved her very deeply and still miss her to this day. But no old mythology or superstition will cause me to ignore that reality. 

But as much as that pained me to see, and as much as loosing her hurt, I still enjoyed the time we did have while she was alive. I feel no need to buy naked assertions to value the real time we did have together. 

Point being, "NDE's" are superstitions born out of ignorance and a mental placebo due to lack of understanding the real medical reality that is going on in such an event.

It's a false perception, nothing more.

Let me add, if you talk to people of other religions they too will claim "NDE's" but someone in India if they claim to see God will talk about Brahma. If a Muslim from the middle east has one, they will claim to have met Mo or Allah. Buddhist will claim they were almost reincarnated. Japanese will claim they saw their ancestors.

But it is all, no matter where still a misunderstanding of how biologically the brain operates under extreme stress, and or while shutting down at death.

I agree with most of what you said, you made some good points. However, Muslims never report seeing Muhammad, I;ve researched a lot. They will see a light, most have positive experiences, but for some reason, the prophet never shows up
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Fear of hell, advice please - by orthodox-man - February 28, 2018 at 8:50 pm
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by Edwardo Piet - February 28, 2018 at 8:52 pm
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by Silver - February 28, 2018 at 8:55 pm
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by Edwardo Piet - February 28, 2018 at 8:55 pm
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RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by Napoléon - February 28, 2018 at 9:12 pm
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by Edwardo Piet - February 28, 2018 at 9:13 pm
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by Jenny A - February 28, 2018 at 9:20 pm
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by Fake Messiah - February 28, 2018 at 10:09 pm
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by Edwardo Piet - February 28, 2018 at 10:10 pm
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by Fake Messiah - February 28, 2018 at 11:19 pm
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RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by Grandizer - February 28, 2018 at 11:26 pm
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RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by Grandizer - March 1, 2018 at 2:37 am
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by purplepurpose - March 1, 2018 at 2:29 am
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by orthodox-man - March 1, 2018 at 2:37 am
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by Grandizer - March 1, 2018 at 3:47 am
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by Succubus - March 1, 2018 at 9:34 am
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by orthodox-man - March 1, 2018 at 4:42 pm
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by Brian37 - March 1, 2018 at 7:52 am
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by The Grand Nudger - March 1, 2018 at 10:25 am
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by Edwardo Piet - March 1, 2018 at 10:26 am
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RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by orthodox-man - March 1, 2018 at 8:17 pm
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by Grandizer - March 2, 2018 at 1:01 am
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by orthodox-man - March 2, 2018 at 2:18 am
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by Grandizer - March 2, 2018 at 3:38 am
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RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by Brian37 - March 3, 2018 at 5:55 pm
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by orthodox-man - March 4, 2018 at 9:38 pm
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RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by Brian37 - March 3, 2018 at 10:03 pm
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by Little Rik - March 4, 2018 at 9:18 am
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by Brian37 - March 4, 2018 at 12:04 pm
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by Little Rik - March 5, 2018 at 5:20 am
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RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by Little Rik - March 6, 2018 at 11:27 am
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by The Grand Nudger - March 4, 2018 at 1:30 am
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RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by Grandizer - March 4, 2018 at 7:18 pm
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RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by haig - March 4, 2018 at 5:13 pm
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by LastPoet - March 4, 2018 at 5:16 pm
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RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by haig - March 4, 2018 at 6:57 pm
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by Succubus - March 4, 2018 at 9:02 pm
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by The Grand Nudger - March 5, 2018 at 2:25 am
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by The Grand Nudger - March 6, 2018 at 4:39 am
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by Fake Messiah - March 6, 2018 at 11:37 am
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by orthodox-man - March 6, 2018 at 3:20 pm
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by Fake Messiah - March 6, 2018 at 11:48 pm
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by orthodox-man - March 7, 2018 at 12:30 am
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by Grandizer - March 7, 2018 at 1:39 am
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by purplepurpose - March 6, 2018 at 3:39 pm
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by The Grand Nudger - March 6, 2018 at 4:43 pm
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by orthodox-man - March 6, 2018 at 4:53 pm
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by Succubus - March 6, 2018 at 6:36 pm
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by orthodox-man - March 6, 2018 at 8:00 pm
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by Succubus - March 6, 2018 at 8:11 pm
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by Grandizer - March 6, 2018 at 8:24 pm
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RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by Cecelia - March 6, 2018 at 8:48 pm
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by orthodox-man - March 6, 2018 at 9:10 pm
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RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by Cecelia - March 7, 2018 at 1:43 am
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by Fake Messiah - March 7, 2018 at 1:50 am
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by orthodox-man - March 7, 2018 at 4:34 am
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RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by Little Rik - March 7, 2018 at 4:49 am
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by Cod - March 7, 2018 at 5:38 am
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by Little Rik - March 8, 2018 at 8:19 am
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RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by Little Rik - March 8, 2018 at 10:32 am
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RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by orthodox-man - March 8, 2018 at 6:13 pm
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RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by Fake Messiah - March 8, 2018 at 12:29 pm
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by Fake Messiah - March 7, 2018 at 5:43 am
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by Grandizer - March 7, 2018 at 10:41 am
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by The Grand Nudger - March 7, 2018 at 10:20 am
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RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by The Grand Nudger - March 8, 2018 at 6:23 pm
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by orthodox-man - March 8, 2018 at 7:11 pm
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by Grandizer - March 8, 2018 at 8:56 pm
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by orthodox-man - March 8, 2018 at 11:16 pm
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by Silver - March 8, 2018 at 11:34 pm
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by orthodox-man - March 9, 2018 at 12:01 am
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RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by Succubus - March 8, 2018 at 7:24 pm
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by orthodox-man - March 8, 2018 at 7:37 pm
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by Edwardo Piet - March 8, 2018 at 7:40 pm
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by orthodox-man - March 8, 2018 at 7:49 pm
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by Succubus - March 8, 2018 at 8:04 pm
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by purplepurpose - March 9, 2018 at 1:30 am
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RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by Little Rik - March 9, 2018 at 9:52 am
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by Fake Messiah - March 10, 2018 at 10:08 am
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by Whateverist - March 9, 2018 at 2:36 am
RE: Fear of hell, advice please - by The Grand Nudger - March 9, 2018 at 7:41 am

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